..These findings contribute to our understanding of social and emotional functioning in neurodevelopmental conditions and provide evidence that in WS, amygdala response to fear modulates social behavior...

..This application suggests that the incorporation of known vulnerability markers across psychological, neuroimaging and neuroendocrinological domains is cardinal to how susceptibility is conceptualized and assessed in these disorders...

Emotional conflict and neuroticism: personality-dependent activation in the amygdala and subgenual anterior cingulate

..Our data suggest that extraversion and some of its lower-level facets are associated with individual differences across a network of structures believed to be critical in cognitive and affective processing...

Early white-matter abnormalities of the ventral frontostriatal pathway in fragile X syndrome

..Thus, a larger FFA may play a role in face recognition proficiency among WS...

Mapping genetically controlled neural circuits of social behavior and visuo-motor integration by a preliminary examination of atypical deletions with Williams syndrome

Fumiko HoeftCenter for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research CIBSR, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, JapanPLoS ONE 9:e104088. 2014

..The current study builds on ongoing research designed to characterize the impact of multiple genes, gene-gene interactions and changes in gene expression on the human brain. ..

..Pain and anxiety can be effectively alleviated by hypnotic suggestion, which modulates activity in brain regions associated with focused attention, but the specific neural network underlying this phenomenon is not known...

Is automatic emotion regulation associated with agreeableness? A perspective using a social neuroscience approach

Brian W HaasCenter for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research CIBSR, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GeorgiaHum Brain Mapp 35:866-74. 2014

..This greater regional and anatomical specificity of altered amygdala structure in WS contributes to a model relating genetic risk in WS to the development of key brain regions for social and emotional functioning...

Social brain development in williams syndrome: the current status and directions for future research

..Because this influence occurred only when a concrete association was activated, it appears not to be based on deep comprehension of the stimuli and instead is attributable to simple stimulus-response bonds...